In order to further enhance the public's sense of access to medical treatment, on October 19, the launching meeting of the Hunan Station of the People's Aid Public Welfare Project initiated by the People's Daily Health Client, Waterdrop Mutual Insurance Technology Co., Ltd. and Hunan Children's Hospital and the unveiling ceremony of the Volunteer Service Base of the School of Architecture of Hunan University were held in the auditorium on the 26th floor of Hunan Children's Hospital.
At the event site, Zhao Anping, deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily Health Client Health Times, Wang Yihan, vice president of the public affairs department of Waterdrop Mutual Insurance Technology Co., Ltd., and Zhao Weihua, secretary of the party committee of the hospital, jointly launched the people's rescue project and sent a total of 40,000 yuan to the two groups of children with economic difficulties who underwent liver transplantation and kidney transplantation.
Zhao Anping pointed out in his speech that the People's Daily health client, with the support of Waterdrop Company, jointly launched the "People's Rescue" public welfare activity with the mainstream public tertiary hospitals in the country, which will give full play to the leading role of the central media and public opinion and the mobilization and organization ability of social institutions, and provide rescue services for patients with serious diseases in economic difficulties through the combination of Internet technology platforms and social work services, and help hospitals implement action plans to improve medical services.
Zhao Weihua, secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Children's Hospital, said that on the basis of effectively shouldering the mission of children's physical health in the province, Hunan Children's Hospital has always been committed to public welfare and charity, caring for patients, serving the society, and transmitting positive energy. The launch of the two projects of charitable aid and volunteer service not only advocates all sectors of society to actively pay attention to and help solve the economic problems of patients with serious illness and difficulties, but more importantly, it gives patients and families firm confidence in overcoming the disease in spirit.
In order to bring more temperature to the hospitalized children, the hospital also established a volunteer service base with the School of Architecture of Hunan University, and Li Zheng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Architecture of Hunan University, Chen Jianhua, secretary of the Hospital Discipline Inspection Committee, and Wang Wei, chairman of the trade union, unveiled the base together. Li Zheng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Architecture of Hunan University, said that volunteer service is an important symbol of the progress of social civilization, and the establishment of the volunteer service base is to hope that through the cooperation of colleges and universities, we will jointly gather the strength of love and bring more warmth to sick children and families.
After the launching ceremony, Ren Jun, head of medical social work of Beijing Waterdrop Mutual Insurance Technology Co., Ltd., gave a lecture on the professional skills of medical social work, and the leading guests went to the ward of the rehabilitation center to participate in volunteer activities and comforted the children at the scene.
Heng Heng (pseudonym) is a patient in the Department of Nephrology of Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital, from the rural areas of Zhangjiajie Mountain, who works as a farmer for a living, and has always been the leader of the village's precision poverty alleviation households by growing yellow peaches, flue-cured tobacco and oil tea. Later, Heng Heng suffered from chronic renal insufficiency, and the family's savings were spent on treatment, and in order to take care of him, the family's planting industry was forced to be abandoned. Under the family's multi-faceted financing, Hengheng successfully completed the kidney transplant and can be discharged from the hospital for convalescence immediately. However, after kidney transplantation, patients need to actively prevent infection and take anti-rejection of epidemic inhibitors for life to maintain the normal function of the new kidney, which is still a big expense.
On October 19, the "People's Aid" project jointly initiated by the People's Daily Health Client and The Water Drop Company was launched in Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital. At the launching ceremony, Hengheng and another child with liver transplant received 20,000 yuan of love relief from the people's rescue project public welfare fund to help them tide over the difficulties and return to normal life as soon as possible.
This is the second stop of the "People's Aid" project in the country after the People's Hospital of Wuhan University. Zhao Anping, deputy editor-in-chief of People's Daily Health Client and Health Times, Zhao Weihua, secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Children's Hospital, Xiao Zhenghui, president of Hunan Children's Hospital, Peng Wenjun, secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Architecture of Hunan University, Li Zheng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee, and Wang Yihan, head of social responsibility of Waterdrop, attended the launching ceremony.
The "People's Aid" project was launched in April 2021, adhering to the principle of people first and life first, giving full play to the leading role of the People's Daily health client as the central media public opinion and the mobilization and organization ability of social institutions, combining the advantages of The Waterdrop Company's Internet technology platform and public welfare platform, providing rescue services for patients with serious economic difficulties and helping hospitals implement action plans to improve medical services. The project is carried out in key tertiary hospitals nationwide, building a multi-party collaboration model of "social fundraising + public welfare assistance + social work service", and helping poor patients through donation of public welfare relief funds, standardizing social fundraising in hospitals, and sending social workers to supplement patient services, while promoting the development of harmonious doctor-patient relationship, playing a multi-level guarantee role, and promoting positive social energy.
Previously, Waterdrop Company and Hunan Children's Hospital have carried out in-depth cooperation in the field of medical social work. At present, the Beijing Fenglin Social Work Development Center, supported by the Waterdrop Convergence Public Welfare Foundation, has stationed 3 medical social workers in the hospital to assist doctors in serving patients, providing bridges for doctor-patient communication, providing patients with services such as economic assistance, policy consultation, hospitalization adaptation, doctor-patient coordination, discharge placement, and patient groups, and carrying out activities such as volunteer management and health knowledge lectures in the hospital to enrich patient support measures in multiple dimensions.
In the past five years, 372 million caring people have helped 2.1 million patients with serious illnesses raise more than 42.8 billion yuan in medical funds through Waterdrop. In the past two years, more than 1,500 patients visiting Hunan Children's Hospital have raised more than 50 million yuan in medical aid through water drops. In the practice of long-term participation in the rescue of serious diseases, Shui Di also believes that in addition to the patient's family, caring people and platforms, more social forces should participate together to build a more three-dimensional and more replicable new model of major disease relief.
Therefore, on the basis of past cooperation, the "People's Aid" project brings together the mainstream media, top three hospitals, personal serious illness help Internet service platform and other forces to further improve the hospital rescue system. On the one hand, The project will be dispatched to the "People's Aid" service commissioner to assist social workers to provide fundraising services for patients, and open up an exclusive green channel for the hospital to improve the efficiency of fund raising; on the other hand, the Waterdrop Public Welfare Platform and the China Social Assistance Foundation will set up a special fund to provide public welfare assistance for patients with serious diseases who still lack treatment costs and meet the conditions.
Zhao Anping, deputy editor-in-chief of The People's Daily Health Client and Health Times, said in his speech that children's health is a yardstick for measuring the progress of social civilization, a prerequisite for sustainable human development, and an important support for achieving the strategic goal of healthy China. This time, the "People's Aid Service Station" was successfully established in Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital, hoping to use the strength of all walks of life to bring real help to sick children with family economic difficulties, truly reflect the significance of "people's aid", and let the next generation of the motherland grow up healthily.